![Transgendered Homeless Youth Victimized by Shelter System](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2015/10/Feature3-470x140.jpg?x81652)
At the age of three, Gale started to challenge gender norms, insisting on wearing dresses and tiaras, by age four sobbing at his mirror image…
![Mental Health Superhero](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2015/10/Video-2-Image-1-11-470x140.png?x81652)
In this TedTalk given at the University of Waterloo, Alicia Raimundo details her own experiences of overcoming suicidal ideation and suicide attempt as a young…
![Terrible Love](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2015/10/Song-2-Image-1-470x140.jpg?x81652)
The National’s “Terrible Love” depicts the personal anguish and loneliness of an individual who suffers from alcoholism. Unable to fall asleep without consuming alcohol, the…
![Exercising Your Way to PTSD Recovery](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2015/10/Feature2-470x140.jpg?x81652)
Recent headlines about suicide, domestic violence, and shootings have brought to public awareness the mental health strain that is placed on the men and women…
![The Madness Vase / The Nutritionist](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2015/10/Untitled-432x140.jpg?x81652)
Andrea Gibson is an award-winning poet and activist, whose poetry focuses on gender norms, social reform, and mental health challenges faced by individuals in the…
![If Physical Problems Were Treated Like Mental Health Problems](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2015/10/Screen-Shot-2015-09-19-at-12.33.20-PM-470x140.jpg?x81652)
What if physical difficulties were treated the same way as mental health problems? This short video cleverly brings attention to the misconceptions about mental health,…
![CIA Torture Techniques Harm Interrogators As Well](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2015/10/Feature-1-470x140.jpg?x81652)
In December of 2014, the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee released a tell-all report about the Central Intelligence Agency’s (CIA) detainment and interrogation of suspected terrorists,…
!["Carry the Fallen"](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2015/10/Screen-Shot-2015-09-19-at-12.41.48-PM-470x140.jpg?x81652)
On September 10th, 2015, Stephanie Lembo posted a heartbreaking video on her Facebook page that has received nearly twenty-three million views and the attention of…
![John Oliver on Mental Health & Gun Control](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2015/10/Screenshot-2015-10-06-10.08.56-470x140.jpg?x81652)
In the wake of another college shooting in the US, various politicians and media outlets predictably pointed the finger at mental illness in an effort…
![Divorce an Unreliable Predictor of Aggressiveness](https://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/files/2015/10/Feature1-470x140.jpg?x81652)
“Tomorrow is the day of retribution, the day in which I will have my retribution against humanity, against all of you.” Elliot Rodger spoke these…